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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."
"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
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